Darwin

HOWDY FOLKS! Today, you are going to learn how to draw my pal Darwin from The Amazing World of Gumball! (property of Cartoon Network)

Just click on the arrows to the right in order to go through the steps. Hover over the bottom of the image to see a description of the steps. New steps will be in red.

Remember to draw very lightly in the beginning steps, so that you have an easier time erasing.

ENJOY!

Step One

Start with a round square, that tapers on the left. Lightly draw a t across this square, to help with eye and cheek placement.

Step Two

Add a circle to the right for the cheek

Step Three

Draw two circles for the eyes, using the guidelines for spacing.

Step Four

Use two rectangles for the legs, and two for the first part of Darwin's foot

Step Five

Add two circles on the end of your rectangles.

Step Six

Use two rectangles for the arms

Step Seven

Use two circles to finish the arms, similar to how we did the feet.

Step Eight

Add a rounded rectangle to the back of the head, for the fin.

Clean-up

At this point, clean up any overlapping lines from the shapes we used, until your picture looks somewhat like this.

Step Nine

Use two circles for the pupils, and add lines to the eyes, for eyelashes.

Step Ten

Add the eyebrows, lines on the fin, and a "u" shape for the mouth.

Step Eleven

Add lines for the socks, and the end of the shoes.

Step Twelve

Add skinny ovals for the markings on the shoes.

Inks

Ta-da! You can now grab your sharpie and trace over your pencil lines. Once the ink has dried, erase any pencil lines you can still see.

Color

Now you have two choices. Either jump straight into coloring, OR use a copier to make duplicates of your drawing, so you and your friends can color together!

ADVANCED: lighting

Once your colors have dried, you can go back over certain areas (shown here) with those colors again, in order to show where light and shadow are.

DIGITAL RENDERING ADVICE

If you have a digital program, you can use gradients to make a more natural lighting effect over your colors. I prefer Manga Studio 5, but Photoshop, or various tablet based programs (like Procreate or Autodesk Sketchbook) will also work.